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File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."


||1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath


File:Neptune_Slaughter_menaces_Project_Iceworm.jpg|link=Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] manifests as gigantic ice worm, extracts data from [[Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Project Iceworm]].
||1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] takes orders from [[Neptune Slaughter]].
 
||1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1954)
 
||1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1955)
 
||1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
 
||1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (d. 1996) rockets
 
||1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1974)
 
||1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
 
||1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
 
||1979 – Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
 
||1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
 
||2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 
||2006 – Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (b. 1923)
 
||2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
 
||2008 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (b. 1929)
 
||2012 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
 
|File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
|File:Neptune_Slaughter_menaces_Project_Iceworm.jpg|link=Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] manifests as gigantic ice worm, extracts data from [[Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Project Iceworm]].
|File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] takes orders from [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' vows to fight [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] on sight.
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' vows to fight [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] on sight.
File:HAL9000.svg|link=HAL 9000|[[HAL 9000]] blames [[software defect (nonfiction)|software defect]] for death of crew and passengers.
|File:HAL9000.svg|link=HAL 9000|[[HAL 9000]] blames [[software defect (nonfiction)|software defect]] for death of crew and passengers.
File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|[[Software defect (nonfiction)|Software defect]] denies killing crew and passengers of spaceship ''Discovery''.
File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|[[Software defect (nonfiction)|Software defect]] denies killing crew and passengers of spaceship ''Discovery''.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
|File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|Famed artificial intelligence [[Benoit Mandelbrot]] proposes to deprogram [[HAL 9000]].
|File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|Famed artificial intelligence [[Benoit Mandelbrot]] proposes to deprogram [[HAL 9000]].
File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|[[Evil bit release|Release of evil bit]] blamed for [[HAL 9000]]'s [[Software defect (nonfiction)|defects]].
|File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|[[Evil bit release|Release of evil bit]] blamed for [[HAL 9000]]'s [[Software defect (nonfiction)|defects]].
File:Ecliptic path.jpg|link=Zodiac Healer|The [[Zodiac Healer]] travels along the ecliptic, exactly as [[HAL 9000]] predicted.  
|File:Ecliptic path.jpg|link=Zodiac Healer|The [[Zodiac Healer]] travels along the ecliptic, exactly as [[HAL 9000]] predicted.  
File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=HAL 9000|"[[HAL 9000]] is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.
|File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=HAL 9000|"[[HAL 9000]] is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.
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